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    Maestro of Solitude
    Maestro of Solitude
    Maestro of Solitude
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    Maestro of Solitude

    By Robert Bonazzi

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    Highlighting work from the 1990s into the new millennium, Robert Bonazzi’s fifth book of poemshis first in 20 yearsdraws upon the slow-gathering wisdom of late middle age. These poems are dialogues between the clockwork of ego and timeless solitude and between earthly intimacy and the death of loved ones; lucid discourses on global politics and besieged communities; and witty takes on poetics and the arts. Often considered one of the unsung heroes of modern American poetry, Bonazzi has elicited praise from such contemporaries as Mark Van Doren, Thomas Merton, Guy Davenport, Robert Peters, and Naomi Shihab Nye.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherWings Press
    Release dateSep 1, 2007
    ISBN9781609400842
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      Maestro of Solitude - Robert Bonazzi

      Maestro of Solitude

      Other works by Robert Bonazzi

      Prose

      Man in the Mirror:

      John Howard Griffin and the Story of Black Like Me

      The Musical Erotic (novella)

      Poetry

      Perpetual Texts

      Fictive Music

      Living the Borrowed Life

      Domingo

      (with Carlos Isla and C.W. Truesdale)

      Maestro of Solitude © 2007

      by Robert Bonazzi

      Cover image: Untitled, crayon on handmade paper (1964)

      by R.C. Ellis, used by permission of RosamaríAa RamíArez de Ellis

      First Edition

      Print Edition ISBN: 978-0-916727-43-7

      ePub ISBN: 978-1-60940-084-2

      Kindle ISBN: 978-1-60940-085-9

      Librry PDF ISBN: 978-1-60940-086-6

      Wings Press

      627 E. Guenther

      San Antonio, Texas 78210

      Phone/fax: (210) 271-7805

      On-line catalogue and retail ordering:

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      Wings Press is distributed by IPG

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      Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

      Bonazzi, Robert.

        Maestro of solitude: poems & poetics / Robert Bonazzi. -- 1st ed.

          p. cm.

        ISBN 978-0-916727-43-7 (pbk.: alk. paper)

        I. Title.

        PS3552.O593M34 2007

        811′.54--dc22                    2007033346

      Except for fair use in reviews and/or scholarly considerations, no portion of this book may be reproduced without the written permission of the author.

      For Isabella

      Muse of Memory

      CONTENTS

      From A Low Promontory

      Coast

      On the Verandah

      Concerning Angels

      Contemplating Photography

      Shooting Star

      Can’t Say Otherwise

      Syrian Siren

      Innocent Beauty

      Angel Eyes

      Point, Counterpoint

      A Gadfly

      Counting Grains of Sand

      Cat Language

      Clockwork of Ego

      The Cruising Ego

      Cantos of Particles and Waves

      Self-Pity

      Questions of Critical Mass

      A Lucid Truthfulness

      Jesus Wept

      Every Tribe

      The Only Genius

      Tonight’s Facts

      What We Do Not Say

      With Your Taste

      He Flaunts Hunger

      Unframed Portraits

      Call Me Roberto

      Seedy Adolescence

      Zero Celsius

      The Great Silence

      Stray Arrows from Chaos

      Enigma Variations

      Ways To Cross the River

      Border Crossings

      New York To Mexico City

      Ravishing Solos

      Opus Posthumous

      Tranquility of Gray Moods

      Cheap Reading Glasses

      Still-Life

      Aesthetic Epicureanism

      Beginning With Cacti

      Cactus Rose

      Perhaps

      Musing Moments

      Shadow Play

      Selective Spontaneity

      Elevator Shaft

      Attached To Place

      Desert Religions

      The Extreme Other

      Being in Nothingness

      Death and Solitude

      Lonely For Solitude

      Beginning With Words by Reverdy

      Vallejo Died in Paris

      Elegy For Lorenzo

      At Table

      Endless Scribble

      Near Absolutes

      Transcriptions For Isabella

      The Empty House

      Widower

      A Cat Called Piccolo

      Moon

      Boiling Water

      Evening

      In Monument Valley

      Solitary ÉAtudes

      Maestro of Solitude

      Essays in Poetics

      Poetics As Self-Criticism

      Story of A Poem

      Words Blind With Meaning

      Notes & Acknowledgments

      About the Author

      Maestro

      of Solitude

      Poems & Poetics

      From A Low Promontory

      Human consciousness is in perpetual pursuit of a language and a style. To assume consciousness is at once to assume form. Even at levels far below the zone of definition and clarity, forms, measures and relationships exist. The chief characteristic of the mind is to be

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